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'The Likud has finished its historic role'
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| Last Edited | 411 Name Removed Feb 24, 2006 11:29am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Jerusalem Post |
| News Date | Thursday, February 23, 2006 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | National Union-National Religious Party leader Benny Elon had tried unsuccessfully for years to unite the Right.
He attempted to draft enough support on the Right to topple Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and prevent disengagement. He tried to delay the election by drafting the 61 MKs needed for Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu to form a temporary government. And he sought to bring a cluster of right-wing parties - or at least all the religious-Zionist parties - into one bloc that would run together in the March 28 election.
Elon succeeded in his last goal after weeks of bitter negotiations between the National Union and the NRP - and, it emerged, after discovering that a tumor in his throat was malignant. Some people in both parties consider the partnership temporary, though, according both to Elon and to NRP head Zevulun Orlev, the cancer will impede neither the alliance nor Elon's ability to remain at its helm.
In fact, Elon sees the merger as just the first step toward building a solid right-wing bloc that could prevent Kadima from forming a coalition, and then, as the basis for a ruling party. |
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